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Unexpected triggers
What’s one OCD trigger that surprised you?
What’s one OCD trigger that surprised you?
My child’s weird looking doll… first time I ever experienced magical thinking
@AnonymityK Did you think the doll is going to hurt your child?
@Philipp2024 More like it was possessed or something… It was a weird thought. I put the doll in the closet but took it out two mins later. I was triggered by a comment someone made. Some members of my family are very religious, i am not , and that made things scarier. I knew it was OCD when I had the urge to just throw the doll out. So, I took the doll out and left it out for a month
@AnonymityK Possessed?
@Philipp2024 My OCD gave me thought like, what if the doll is possessed. TBH it’s doesn’t make sense, it was just a random thought.
@AnonymityK My weirdest OCD thought was, if I think about teleporting myself into space then that would actually happen and I suffocate because there is no oxygen in space…
@Philipp2024 I am glad we can relate on the weirdness of our thoughts. I have also had, “do I live in a simulation?”.
@AnonymityK Yes, I have those existential ones too. My most prominent currently is „what if there is no meaning of life?“. I think we can say we are great philosophers.
@AnonymityK Relatable.
@Philipp2024 I think we would be! 😂
Objects that I purposely put in place although they usually don’t go there.
Unknown missed phone calls. I can't handle them. I'm a telemarketers dream as I'll always ring them back.
Magpies - I have to say a specific phrase every time I see one or say the magpie rhyme if there’s multiple, it’s probably my biggest magical thinking trigger/compulsion that I’ve been doing since I was a child
The light of our basement storage room, and the sound that comes with it.
Any 2016 love song or any love song
A resident at work was talking about swans and said something about them mating for life. Just the word “mating” “mate” or anything having to do with sex will send me into panic.. but afterwards I’ll feel so stupid. In the moment I’m so focused on “what if I react weird to the word mating” and I’ll be so anxious about it that I’ll turn so red and I’ll hear my heart beating and I can’t breathe. Then I start to panic that maybe I find animals sexually attractive and people might think that I like bestiality
A certain song
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair really set off my existential issues. I regularly read extremely graphic fiction with little issue, so that was surprising.
A joke my husband made
My child’s sports
Coloring Utensils. Must be in order, or I get frustrated and annoyed.
Compliments 🫠
A smell, it remind me of the time my ocd was bad and then i was again in it
Hearing voices
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